WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be presenting back-to-back workshops for the National Network to End Domestic Violence on how those working with this vulnerable population group can be skillful in handling and navigating health privacy issues. The conference will be in New Orleans, and is part of the NNEDV SafetyNet Project. More on this

WPF is participating in the National Privacy Research Strategy workshop, which will be held in Washington DC this February. This workshop is part of a broader effort from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Last October, OSTP asked federal agencies to prepare a draft National Privacy Research Strategy, with the objective to

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will be presenting to the DBA International Conference a talk on ethical privacy frameworks and consumer privacy issues around debt buying activities such as skip tracing and related activities. Panel Information: Best Practices/Self-Regulation for Consumer Skip Tracing February 5, 2015 10: 00 am For more information: DBA International Events

WPF Executive Director will be participating in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Data Privacy Day event as a distinguished speaker on the topic of health privacy in a modern era. Moderating the panel discussion will be Peter Swire, Professor, Law and Ethics Program, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. Event Details: Panel: Health Privacy

Free privacy webinar for NNEDV / SafetyNet If you are a member of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, you can attend a free webinar for the SafetyNet Project on the Ten Simple Things You Can Do to be Safer, Improve Your Medical Privacy, and Take Back More Control of Your Information. Pam Dixon,

This new World Privacy Forum report reviews privacy law applicable to the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), and the large medical information and biospecimen database at its center. The HIPAA health privacy rule and its protections for individuals will not apply to PMI research activities. The key privacy concerns raised by the PMI are the lack of applicable law to govern its collection and use of individuals’ health data, the potential waiver of the patient-physician legal privilege that can shield data from disclosure through litigation, and the possibility of law enforcement access to patient records held in the PMI.

To score is human. Ranking individuals by grades and other performance numbers is as old as human society. Consumer scores — numbers given to individuals to describe or predict their characteristics, habits, or predilections — are a modern day numeric shorthand that ranks, separates, sifts, and otherwise categorizes individuals and also predicts their potential future actions. This new report by Pam Dixon and Robert Gellman explores this issue of predictive scores and privacy.